In case you have never seen this page before, you can find Segey's page on Microsoft Research at http://research.microsoft.com/~melnik/ . Here you will find some papers on subjects that are near and dear to what ADO.NET Entities is doing.

This is fresh off the press - I've recently accepted a new challenge in the group working on ADO.NET Entities. Oooohhh... This is going to be a lot of fun! If there is something that personally thrills me, that's working on improving developer productivity...